来拔草了.

巴黎的最后一个月, 一直是在各个朋友家借宿, 从市中心到南郊, 再转到西郊. 我像一只流浪猫一样, 带着箱子飘飘荡荡. 居无定所,心也难以安定了, 也就一直没有来更新了. 虽然最近的日子活色生香. 用户名和密码全部忘光光, 折腾了好久才爬上来. 这几年, 也许我改变了很多, 不过一直不变的是烂记性和糊涂劲.

和一群姐妹们去水上乐园玩到直至腰酸背痛. 去逛了凡尔赛宫, 去看了亚洲艺术博物馆, 去看了毕加索博物馆……很多想去的地方, 虽然近在身边, 总觉得以后会有很多的机会去看的, 所以一直耽搁着. 随着在巴黎的日子越来越少, 少到屈指可数的时候, 一切也终于不得不成行了. 我想我是要在这些天, 好好的用完对巴黎的热情, 而此后, 把这些沉淀成很多很多的回忆, 足够我慢慢的去享用.

也许在很多女孩年轻的梦想中, 有一个是巴黎. 可在我到巴黎生活前, 反而没有什么憧憬和梦想, 流于形式而产生的憧憬总是让我觉得矫情. 对巴黎的感情, 就像和一个人谈恋爱一样, 从最初的模糊好感和丝毫厌恶的矛盾情绪, 随着一点点的深入了解, 了解的优点越来越多, 好感慢慢加深, 也慢慢的接受了他让我厌恶的那些瑕疵, 并且学会了与这些瑕疵和平共处.

巴黎的恼人之处, 在于它过于繁杂的人群, 让独自出门的女孩乐在其中的同时, 也要为安全问题而担忧. 可它的动人之处, 也在于它多样化的人群. 仿佛你可以从每个你身边经过的路人脸上, 读到一个个生动有趣的故事. 随意抽出某一天出门的经历, 接触到的人和事, 也许就可以写出一篇小说. 这个城市里, 每天还有无数的展览和活动上演着. 如果碰巧你对人文和艺术感兴趣, 那就把自己变成一块海绵吧, 尽情的去吸收……

今年的巴黎没有夏天, 雨随时随地都有可能光临, 阳光成了天空最稀有的贵客. 前一秒我在抱怨完烂糟糟的雨天, 可是后一秒, 看着街上惊慌失措躲雨的人们, 又觉得这样的雨天也可爱无比. 有打扮精巧的女孩, 急匆匆的继续赶路, 原是为了赴男友之约……

凡尔赛 Versaille

What a ingenious italien guy!

1. “VISIONA 1″ FUTURISTIC HABITAT

Design 1969 – Production 1969 BAYER (Leverkusen)

Prototype of “Futuristic Habitat”, the structure is composed of three coordinated units which are equipped using technological advancement and innovative materials. A)-”Central-Living”: living space for leisure; B)- “Night-Cell”: can be closed and climate controlled for sleeping, includes bathroom and closets;C)- “Kitchen-Box”: air-conditioned kitchen equipped with a pull-out dining table.

2. “ROTOLIVING” and “CABRIOLET BED”

Design 1969 – Production 1970 SORMANI

Two coordinated living machines, which synthesized day-time and night-time environments. Designed in 1969, they were of Joe Colombo’s private home and were the fruit of his research into the new living habitat.

They were exhibited for the first time at the Triennale in Milan, “Eurodomus 3″, and produced in limited numbers. These two structures are a further development of Colombo’s early interest in the concept of non-furniture.

3. Mini Kitchen

Designer Joe Colombo. Manufacturer Boffi, 1963

In a brilliant but short career, Joe Colombo tried to imagine the future with a series of experimental designs and exhibition installations. The Mini Kitchen was the first of his innovative products that encapsulated new ideas of flexible living and space planning. The kitchen combines hotplates, oven, grill, refrigerator, drawers and lockers for cutlery, crockery and glasses, and even a tray, knife rack, tin-opener and bookshelf.

Colombo’s Boby mobile cart with drawers and shelves (1970) was also designed for a free space, with access from all sides, and remains a popular item in offices and homes.

4. Tube chairs

The chair comes disassembled as tubes that fit concentrically into each other for portability. The user is able to construct chairs of various shapes with metal and rubber clips, ranging from lounge to task seating.

The upholstered tubes of this chair could be joined in a number of combinations.
Retailed in a drawstring bag, the Tubo chair was an early example of furniture that could literally be bought ‘off-the-shelf’. Sitting elements created of plastic tubes.

4 large lacquered plastic (Arcipiuma) cylinders in different sizes, lacquered polyurethane foam upholstery, steel and rubber connecting joints.

5.  Additional Living Room

Colombo also reinvented seating. In 1967, he unveiled the Additional Living System consisting of moulded polyurethane cushions in six different sizes which could be pinned together in different configurations according to the users’ wishes. Two years later, he took self-assembly a step further in the Tube chair composed of four ready-made upholstered semi-rigid cylinders which, once again, could be put together into any shape the user desired. The final futuristic touch was the packaging. Colombo insisted that the cylinders of each Tube chair were sold “off-the-shelf” in a drawstring bag of his design.

6. “SMOKE” GLASS

Design 1964 – Production 1969

The design is specifically oriented to the simultaneous use of the glass along with cigarette, thanks to the form of the stem of the glass which can easily be inserted in the space between thumb and index finger while the glass itself rests on the back of the open hand. This glassware has been utilized by people with limited manual dexterity.

My fate is frequently that I have an ingenious idea popping up in my mind while siting in my office and then I have to find that somebody else is more capable to bring it to the market. Like the cat cam. A small cam attached to your beloved pet cat to spy out its daily life,  normally excluded from human’s voyeurism.

For all who have problems accessing flickr.com from mainland china,  can may circumvent the filter, installed by the chinese ministry of information. There is a firefox browser addon, however, it does not support older versions.  Consider it as provisional, either we will find some other photo album web page or the information policy in China might be shifted towards more information freedom. Just recently, the minister of information  mentioned in a NYT interview that the CCP realized  that is becoming infeasible to control the information flux of billions of short messages and emails.    

塞纳河边的巴黎圣母院

Notre-Dame de Paris

河边身穿和服的日本游客,喜欢林荫下优美的影子.

The japanese tourists in the shadow.

 哈哈,某个人像一只生气的猴子~~~

Haha, someone looks like an angry monkey……

我从没有见过比巴黎更美的黄昏和日落

巴黎迷人的黄昏让我对夏日的傍晚着迷

看着卢浮宫广场里美丽的日落

愈发的舍不得离开巴黎这座城市了.

I have never seen any sunset more beautiful than the sunset in Paris

The indescribable sunset in Paris makes me to fall in love with the summer evening

On the way to my school, I should traverse a wooden bridge calls Art Bridge. It’s a walking bridge, one of my favorite bridges in Paris.Sometimes, some painters draw here, or some musical people play music here.In the summer evening, here becomes a nice garden to take some parties, or might call it a “café terrasse” or a “restaurant en plein air”. We call it the best restaurant in Paris, who is free and has the best view.I found some photography works of the french photographer Robert Doisneau. About the past stories on the Art bridge.

Haha, Marcus’ sweater is too too… large for me~~~

Robert Doisneau’s work 1953

Robert Doisneau’s work 1953

(However,translate google website is cool,but it’s not ingenious enough. I prefer to translate my text myself. Just take it as a english practice. Sorry for my grammatical errors.)

Opening the morning news,two major news were : the flood and the house price.

For the huge floods in 1998’s China, My impression is that the newspapers full of flood photographs, is on the road continuous conveying succor materials trucks. That summer was busy due to the floods,Many people’s lives, Many people’s homes, disappeared in the flood.

Increasingly frequent floods, either is due to the El Nino phenomenon (El Ni ño), or is due to the issue of forest cover,all is because the nature is replying the human breakage on it. How is the earth? how is the human? The human greed to obtain from the nature, with a view to have a more comfortable life. But we didn’t know that the nature’s vengeance might be disastrous.

An increasing number of environmental problems, Perhaps today the punished one is the persons who are suffering from the flood, but tomorrow’s tomorrow. Who can say punishment will not happen to you or me?

Sometimes I want a simple life. If each consume less, the earth’s burden can be a bit lighter. The recent years,my environmental awareness is growing. I found we just do some little daily things, it can change a lot. Let’s care for the earth.

And, the house price is going up again. The lives of Chinese people are really harder and harder. People is so busy, no time to rest, no time to stop and enjoy the life, no time to look at how bad the environment is. But even they are busy like this, be not able to exchange a place to live. I think peoeple get tired to see the news about the increase of the house price. The state regulation and control are never effective. The experts spoke the house prices will still rise during the next decade, due to the chinese population structure. Who hear the cry in the common peoeple’s heart?

The GDP increase is also reported, some ambitious GDP maniac just care the economic degree. But what it helps? In a increasingly wealthy country, people increasingly unable to afford a house to live.

     早晨打开新闻,这就是在中国的两大新闻.

     对于1998年的洪水,我的印象是报纸上一张张汪洋大水的照片,是马路上源源不断输送物质的大卡车.那个夏天因为洪水变的很热闹.很多人的生命,很多人的家园,就这样在洪水中都没了.

    洪水越来越频繁了,是由于厄尔尼诺现象(El Niño)也好,是由于森林植被问题也好,都是大自然在饱受摧残后的回击.地球到底怎么了?人类到底怎么了?人类贪婪的向大自然索取,以期能有更舒适的生活.可是没有想到,大自然的回击可以是灾难性的.越来越多的环境问题,也许今天受到大自然惩罚的是那些遭受着水灾的人们,可是明天的明天,谁能说惩罚不会降临到你我的头上呢?不断地会出现地球毁灭之类的预言,也许都是一些对地球现状失望者们,对人类的警示吧.

    很想过简单的生活,每个人消耗更少一点的物质,或许大自然的负担就可以轻一些吧.这几年环保的意识在我的脑海里越来越强了,其实真的只是每天做一些小小的事情,就可以改变很多很多.大家一起来环保吧.

    房价又涨了,中国人真的活的太辛苦.老百姓们忙忙碌碌着,没有时间休息,没有时间停下来看看生活的美,没有时间来看看环境有多糟糕了.可是这样的忙碌着,居然还是换不来一片安身之所.房价飞涨的消息,我想每个人都已经看的疲倦了.国家的调控总是没有效果,专家还在嚷着未来十年房价还要涨,因为咱国家的人口结构问题. 可是有谁听见老百姓内心的哭泣声了吗?

   新闻还在报道GDP又要涨了,一群GDP狂们雄心勃勃嚷着要超过德国,位居世界第三了.那又如何呢,越来越富有的国家里的人民,越来越住不起房子了.

丹

Catwalk lady,  originally uploaded by marcusanddan.